INO Research Seminar

Seminar by
Michael Dahl, Aalborg University

Entrepreneurship and Occupational Stress

Joint work with
Jimmi Nielsen, Aalborg Psychiatric Hospital

Abstract:

We know from current research in social sciences that entrepreneurs take considerable risks, when they found a new firm. They put their family’s economic future at risk in a battle for economic survival, where the majority of new firms only stay in business for a limited amount of time. Using a unique database of the entire Danish economy, this paper investigates the risk of occupational stress for founders’ spouses and founders of new firms from 1996 to 2001.

Michael Dahl is an Associate Professor at DRUID, Department of Business Studies, Aalborg University. He has a PhD in Economics of Innovation (Aalborg University, 2004), and a MSc in Economics (Aalborg University, 1999). In 2002 and 2007, he was a Visiting Professor at Department of Social and Decision Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, and in 2002 a Visiting Scholar at the Eindhoven Center for Innovation Studies, Eindhoven Technical University. He received the Spar Nord Foundation Research Award 2005, the Tietgen Gold Medal in 2006 and the Tuborg Foundation Business Research Award in 2001. His primary research interests are economic geography, entrepreneurship and industry evolution.